Re: Caching responses to HEAD requests in httpclient-cache

2014-05-16 Thread Rob Elliot
t; On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Oleg Kalnichevski > wrote: > > > On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 11:56 +0100, Rob Elliot wrote: > > > On 13 May 2014 09:01, Oleg Kalnichevski wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mon, 2014-05-12 at 13:48 +0100, Rob Elliot wrote: > > &

Re: Caching responses to HEAD requests in httpclient-cache

2014-05-13 Thread Rob Elliot
On 13 May 2014 09:01, Oleg Kalnichevski wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-05-12 at 13:48 +0100, Rob Elliot wrote: > > > > We're considering extending httpclient-cache to make [it cache the responses > > to HEAD requests], but we > > don't want to lock ourselves out o

Caching responses to HEAD requests in httpclient-cache

2014-05-12 Thread Rob Elliot
Hi all, We're using HTTP Client 4.x with httpclient-cache. Our system needs to retrieve some metadata over HTTP that is returned in a Header Field, so it only needs to make a HEAD request. However, as it stands httpclient-cache does not cache the responses to HEAD requests. While the HTTP spec do